Post-9/11 literature is an often disconcerting cultural sector. It proclaims a degree of willingness to face one’s most closely held creeds and to challenge one’s established views not only on culture, but on a sociopolitical conditioning which has grown to determine the historical trajectory of the early 21st century. By reading post-9/11 novels, one is effectively embarking on a quest for meaning, for the key to understanding one of the most traumatic and complex events in recent history. Even for the common reader, the message put forward by most post-9/11 fiction becomes clear: the quest for answers meanders through a series of further questions, a trace of signification which apparently has no ultimate resolve. However, the mechanism of cauterization and healing, and sometimes coping with the absence of meaning, are accounted for in these literary works. The inner strife of the self may be resolved publicly, in this manner, only by relating to the experience of the Other.